Tanzania: Finland Says Won't Withhold Its Funds Over Homophobia

Dar es Salaam — Finland, a European Union member, will not withhold aid to Tanzania over recent homophobic comments by some politicians, Finish media reported yesterday.

Media reports quoted Theresa Zitting (pictured), of the Foreign Affairs ministry's Africa desk, as saying that the Nordic country was not going to cut aid that goes to help millions of poor people due to homophobic pronouncements made by an individual "populist" politician who seems to have neither the support of the government nor of the general population.

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